New Yorkers Quotes - Page 5

• I've - that I regret. That was stupid and ignorant on my part. I went to a party as a guest of a friend of mine, a lawyer. And he had a client who I didn't know, except - maybe I'm pretending I didn't know, but he was a big investor in The New Yorker. And as I found out later in a book about The New Yorker, this guy was very unhappy about [Bill] Shawn.He thought Shawn was spending out - spending too much money on writers.

  Nat Hentoff

  Regret, Stupid, Party

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• If [Bill Shawn] liked the piece, then he would run it. But he wanted the magazine to be something that was more than just a weekly event. And as a result you could pick up a New Yorker under him, as I mentioned before, a year from then or 10 years or 20 years and there would always be something worth reading in it.

  Nat Hentoff

  Running, Reading, Years

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press conferences that `Bill Shawn will stay here as long as he wants to be here.' Well, he wanted to be here until he died, but he wasn't allowed to.

  Nat Hentoff

  Long, Want, Bills

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

  Nat Hentoff

  Chronology, Said, Terrible

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• The main jobs would be The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The Washington Post and - I'm thinking of The Reporter when Max Askeli was there, but I got fired from The Reporter.

  Nat Hentoff

  Jobs, Thinking, Voice

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I like [John Cardinal O'Connor] a lot. He - I started a - to know him - when I asked William Shawn at The New Yorker, `Sh - can I do a profile of Cardinal O'Connor?' He said, `All right. Find out what he's like.' So I went to his office, and I heard somebody - and it turned out to be O'Connor - yelling outside, and I've never heard him since raise his voice.

  Nat Hentoff

  Yelling, Voice, Office

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Clay Felker was then - he had - to his credit, he had created New York Magazine, which was the first of the city magazines that covered the city and gave all kinds of advice and all that sort of stuff. And there were copies all over the country by the time he left. He had, however, a view of journalism that was very much, I must say, like Tina Brown's at The New Yorker. You hit 'em hard, fast, give 'em something to talk about the day after the paper comes out, as contrasted with William Shawn, who gave them something to talk about two or three years from then.

  Nat Hentoff

  Country, New York, Views

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear.

  Henrik Lundqvist

  Individuality, Different, Way

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

  Malachy McCourt

  New York, Cities, Government

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

  Bill de Blasio

  Thinking, Cities, Foundation

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• I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit.

  Rachel Boston

  Heart, Spirit

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• The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.

  William Shawn

  Years, Facts, Truth Is

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• When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.

  Benny Goodman

  Lonely, New York, Cities

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• I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian?

  Craig Ferguson

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• Cartoons, often, that you do for the New Yorker don't appear for months afterwards, and the record for that is a cartoon that was bought by James Stevenson in 1987 and didn't appear until 2000.

  Robert Mankoff

  Cartoon, Records, Months

  "'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Explores What Makes Us Get It". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. December 4, 2015.

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• I've never felt more American than I did when I moved to England. It becomes a real kind of part of your identity: "Oh, Ben. He's the American guy." I think when you say you're from New York you get a different reception then if you just say, "I'm American." So I'd always kind of make sure I was a New Yorker first.

  Ben Schnetzer

  New York, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have never lived in New York City, but a lot of people think that I am a New Yorker, because I was embraced by the Downtown scene since the 1980s. For the record I was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.

  Vaginal Davis

  New York, Thinking, California

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of photography.

  William Klein

  Photography, Zero, Believe

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• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  Sal Albanese

  New York, Party, Independent

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• I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Marriage Equality, Today, Lifelong

  "Gay Marriage Bill Passes In New York; Governor Cuomo Signs Same Sex Marriage Bill Into Law", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way.

  James Purdy

  New York, Rocks, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up there because you've seen it in so many films. It's been filmed from every single angle and by so many different filmmakers that you know the streets, the sidewalks, the architecture, the cabs, the temper of the people.

  Deniz Gamze Erguven

  People, Different, Firsts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You can come from China, Russia, any place, and you can be a New Yorker. You can say what you want to say here, really express yourself.

  Rula Jebreal

  Russia, Want, Express Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.

  Daniel Boulud

  Real, Successful, Cities

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